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Our national charity partners
In the 2016/17 nancial year, we adopted ve national charity partners:
• RIDBC is Australia’s largest non-government provider of education, therapy and cochlear implant services for children and adults with vision or hearing loss, their families and the professionals who support them. A Sydney of ce team volunteered their time by rolling up their sleeves at RIDBC—Alice Betteridge School Numeracy
and Literacy Open Day in North Rocks. We also provided RIDBC with more than 85 hours of legal work.
• ANROWS is an independent, NFP company aiming to deliver relevant and translatable research evidence that drives policy and practice leading to a reduction in the levels of violence against women and their children. Our Property, NFP, Dispute Resolution and Workplace teams assisted ANROWS with this mission by providing it with more than 120 hours of pro bono legal work and we contributed funds to The Forgotten Victims project.
• The McGrath Foundation raises money to place McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities across Australia and to increase breast awareness in young people, particularly young women, through its national breast education initiative “Curve Lurve”. Our Brisbane of ce held a Pink Stumps Morning Tea and snack box fundraising, while our Newcastle of ce embraced the Pull On Your Socks campaign.
• batyr engages, educates and empowers young people to have positive conversations about mental health by offering a range of programs that give a voice to the “elephant in the room”. From training young people to share their lived experience of mental ill health, to running dynamic programs in schools and universities, batyr aims to smash the stigma surrounding mental health and encourage young people
to seek help when they need it. We were a gold sponsor of batyr’s annual Blue Tie Ball and batyr received our annual Christmas donation of $10,000 to support batyr@school. We also provided batyr with more than 100 hours of legal work.
• The Earthwatch Institute engages people worldwide in scienti c eld research and education to promote the understanding of and action necessary for a sustainable environment. We helped Earthwatch by providing it with more than 50 hours of pro bono legal work. Some of our staff also took part in the exciting Edge Pledge campaign supporting endangered manta rays, with one staff member swimming with sharks to raise funds for this initiative.
We’ve used Benojo to collaborate with our charity partners on local and national initiatives and better measure our social impact. Through this platform, we raised more than $22,500 for these ve organisations in the 2016/17 nancial year.
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